Industrious, were they never?
Some things I've seen would p'rhaps say, "No,
As now they were not ever."
But think not, reader, I intend
To write on why and wherefore;
I know not what these folks will mend,
So cannot tell you therefore.
(Though industry in some to plant
I tried, and put in training;
But soon they cried, "O mend-i-cant!"—